The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany | Josh Gabbatiss 🎨 Joe Goodman Read here ➡️ buff.ly/4kchO8e

Germany election 2025: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change | Josh Gabbatiss Anastasiia Zagoruichyk Read here ➡️ buff.ly/438NZzs

Clean energy tax credits appear to be next on the IRS’s list for special audit scrutiny. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-repo…

CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’ | Simon Evans Josh Gabbatiss Molly Lempriere Read here: buff.ly/3Qxxzt7

Revealed: More than half of nations fail to protect 30% of land and sea in UN nature plans | Daisy Dunne Patrick Greenfield Giuliana A. Viglione, PhD Yanine Quiroz Read here: buff.ly/3F9DAcK

Singapore seeks experts to work on global framework for cross-border renewable energy certificates eb.news/8L6-q4KkTsKA

Bad news for Big Oil: their attacks on us backfired and now our movement is stronger than ever 📣 Take action by signing our open letter! GreenpeaceOnTrial.Org

#Niger’s Landscape Restoration Project is restoring productivity to over 49,000 hectares of degraded land, creating 100,000 paid workdays for local communities, and supporting small enterprises in fisheries, aquaculture, and agro-forestry. Learn more: wrld.bg/pnoh50VmNVX

EXCEPTIONAL COLD IN ANTARTICA -75.5C reached in the French-Italian station of Concordia: This is just 0.6C above the world record of lowest temperature ever recorded in March.

Importing solar panels makes financial sense💸 While solar panels require a one-off import cost, importing fossil fuels is a recurring expense for countries Read more about Ember’s analysis on global energy security: ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

This is what the area looked like before it was destroyed by Homes England. It’s now been stripped of life and filled in. This is unacceptable behaviour for a government body. This has to end now Angela Rayner It’s time to tell Home England to back off our SNCIs.

Government attempts to reduce environmental protections in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill could breach international law, says KC envirotecmagazine.com/2025/04/30/gov…

I've written a letter to the editor about this. The Bill really is as bad as George Monbiot said Mary Creagh CBE MP theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

A small recap as this unbelievable heat wave in SW Asia (which will continue and intensify in May) with the April national records broken: One event which is rewriting completely world climatic history.

Explainer: Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together | Daisy Dunne w/comment from @khayhoe @pettorelli @charlielouo Hans Poertner @petersoroye @alex_pigot Elizabeth M. Mrema @lishuo_gp #CBarchive Read here: bit.ly/3xT1ymK

#ClimateChange 🌡️ exceptional and caused by human greenhouse gas emissions 🏭 We are causing #globalwarming 10 times faster than past natural changes We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years

🌱 Protecting biodiversity means safeguarding our food systems 🌾 With 5 years left to meet the #GlobalGoals and the targets of the #KMGBF, we must pursue these universal agendas together to achieve harmony with nature and sustainable development. #BiodiversityDay UN Environment Programme

The New York Times Catherine Clifford Bloomberg Anca Gurzu .Financial Times on how Exxon is poised to overtake Shell and BP on low-carbon spending. nt-z.ro/44PLXFc Amy Harder’s take: What a fascinating sign of the times, though the story has some important caveats toward the end about how low-carbon spending is calculated.

Over the last few weeks, I've added quite a few new data visualizations on my global indicators (zacklabe.com/climate-change…) and polar climate pages (zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice…). They will be updated in near-real time, so feel free to share them!

My next 'climate viz of the month' blog is posted and discusses overall changes to #Arctic springtime snow cover: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of… #DataViz #SciComm #OpenData #OpenScience #OpenAccess